The feminine mystique

Friedan, Betty (1921-2006)

The feminine mystique [Texte imprimé] / Betty Friedan ; [introduction by Gail Collins ; afterword by Anna Quindlen] - New York ; London : W. W. Norton & Company, cop. 2013 - 1 vol. (XXV-562 p.) ; 25 cm

Notes bibliogr.

Introduction by Gail Collins -- Preface and acknowledgments -- The problem that has no name -- The happy housewife heroine -- The crisis in woman's identity -- The passionate journey -- The sexual solipsism of sigmund freud -- The functional freeze, the feminine protest, and margaret mead -- The sex-directed educators -- The mistaken choice -- The sexual sell -- Housewifery expands to fill the time available -- The sex-seekers -- Progressive dehumanization : the comfortable concentration camp -- The forfeited self -- A new life plan for women -- Epilogue -- Afterword by anna quindlen -- Thinking back and to the future -- Metamorphosis : two generations later -- Introduction to the tenth anniversary edition -- Notes -- Index -- Reading group guide

978-0-393-06379-0

Feminism--United States Women--United States--Social conditions Women--Psychology

305.420973